
Academic Journal
Q2Tourist Studies
About Tourist Studies
Tourist Studies is a scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications Ltd. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.76 and H-index of 65.
Coverage: 2001-2026. Research categories: Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (Q2).
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Topics in published research
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Religious Tourism and Spaces; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Geographies of human-animal interactions; Culinary Culture and Tourism.
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Reported open-access list prices
3,650.00 USD; 2,676.00 GBP
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From resources to resourcefulness practices: How community agency shapes divergent rural community development in heritage tourism
Linghan Zhang, Xiaofei Hao, Chenyang Qiu
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Tuyen Tran
2026-08-04 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261474314Rethinking wildlife tourism: Perspectives of new animal geographies
Jianhao Liao, Weibing Max Zhao
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261472567Assembling legitimacy, translating Buddhism: Lingshan–Nianhua Bay and destination formation in contemporary China
Yichao Du
2026-07-26 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261471584Emotion, memory, and national identity: Vietnamese youth experiences of dark tourism
Dang Thuan An Nguyen, The-Bao Luong
2026-07-24 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261470854Astrocartography and the cosmological turn in tourism imaginaries
Áurea Rodrigues
2026-07-24 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261470851The wild, the cute and the toured: Multispecies ethnography for tourism in China
Qingming Cui, Chin Ee Ong
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261473055Tourism and human-elephant conflict in China: An embodied approach to coexistence
Ziyu Zhang, Qingming Cui
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261465206Reworking the tourist gaze: urban art, counter-heritage and public encounter in Barcelona
Marianne Walker
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261453425Mirrors, labour, and contested ground: Tourism research at the intersection of heritage, resistance, and crisis: Editors-in-chief notes
Chin Ee Ong, Susan Frohlick
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261455234Making continuity: How multiple production networks sustain Huimo as an intangible cultural heritage
Chuyi Zhao, Xuehong Xiao, Honggang Xu
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261453422Restructuring human-animal relations in rural tourism destinations
Xiang Luo, Honggang Xu, Xiang Cheng
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261453426Confronting labour loss in the tourist city
Alejandro González-Domingo
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261447990Is it the “end of tourism as such” or a new beginning? Response to José López-González and Michalis Nikolakakis
Dean MacCannell
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261448024Tourists’ climate change denial? A view from Norway
Bente Heimtun, Arvid Viken
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261447923Episodic tourism ethnography in a multi-ethnic field: Uneven immersion and multi-layered shifting positionalities
Keng Hang Frankie Fan
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261445277Relational affect and authenticity in themed space: China’s “Uniquely Henan”
Jirong Yang, Chaozhi Zhang, Ding Xu
2026-03 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261427794Navigating touristification through social entrepreneurship: Community-based tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Eduardo García-Frapolli, Viviana Asara
2026-03 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261430379Editors in Chief notes
Susan E. Frohlick, Chin Ee Ong
2026-03 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261430988Gazing in naturist camps: Intra-tourists’ gaze dynamics and effects on destination image
Elodie Manthé
2026-03 · DOI: 10.1177/14687976261430949Reviews
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